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The maritime villa of Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Cicero’s son-in-law, discovered on land confiscated from the Camorra in Baiae
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (531+ words) The structure, provisionally attributed to the politician and military figure Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Cicero's son-in-law, emerges after the first phase of excavations at Villa Ferretti, in the heart of the ancient city of Baiae (modern Baiae), partially submerged by the…...
Shipwrecks, Byzantine Anchors, and Port Remains Discovered North of the Greek Island of Karpathos
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (231+ words) The team also identified remains corresponding to ancient port installations, whose presence confirms the existence of infrastructure linked to navigation and maritime trade in different historical periods. Added to this assemblage are more than twenty Byzantine anchors, whose discovery acquires…...
The Armenian and Georgian alphabets closely resemble the ancient Ethiopian writing system: researchers believe it is not a coincidence
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (408+ words) Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University have published a study in which, using artificial intelligence as the primary analytical tool, they demonstrate significant structural similarities between ancient writing systems originating in the Horn of…...
Why Did Bronze Age Menorcans Avoid Seafood Despite Living on an Island? A Study Reveals the Paradox
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (607+ words) The Binadris cave, discovered in 2013 by local speleologists, is an exceptional site. Its difficult access, through a cliff, has allowed extraordinary preservation of organic materials spanning nearly eight hundred years of occupation, from 1300 to 500 before our era. Inside, archaeologists have…...
They Have Been With Us Since the Ice Age: A Study Using Ancient DNA Places Dog Domestication Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed
1+ week, 2+ day ago (558+ words) An international investigation led by the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford has succeeded in establishing the oldest documented genetic evidence to date for the existence of domestic dogs, pushing back the confirmed presence of these animals alongside humans to a…...
What Did the Sumerians of Southern Mesopotamia Eat in the 3rd Millennium BCE? A Technique Reveals the Diet of Non-Elite Populations
1+ week, 3+ day ago (798+ words) An international study applies zinc isotope analysis in tooth enamel for the first time to reconstruct the diet of a non-elite population in southern Mesopotamia, overcoming the poor preservation of organic remains. Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue in the…...
Study Reveals That the Balkans Were the Main Supplier of Silver to the Roman Empire for More Than 200 Years, Replacing Hispania Starting in the 3rd Century CE
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (423+ words) While Iberia or Dacia have attracted attention in syntheses on mining in the Roman Empire, the Central Balkans have been underrepresented and, consequently, the importance of the region in the Empire's metal supply has been critically underestimated. With this statement,…...
A massive Roman necropolis beneath the urban core of the Croatian city of Zadar, with more than three thousand tombs
1+ week, 5+ day ago (567+ words) Research work, dating back to the 19th century and continuing today, has documented more than three thousand burials at this site, offering an exceptional window into the funerary practices, social structure, and commercial networks of the ancient Jadertina community. This prolonged…...
Giant Elephants Killed by Neanderthals Had Traveled More Than 300 Kilometers Across Central Europe to the Site Where They Were Hunted
2+ week, 4+ day ago (249+ words) The study, recently published and involving scientists from the Rhine-Main Universities Alliance, focuses on the remains exhumed from the former Neumark-Nord lake basin in Saxony-Anhalt, one of the most important concentrations of fossils of this species in Europe. During excavations…...
Remains of a Roman Concrete Bridge-Aqueduct That Supplied Water to First-Century Caesaraugusta Found in Zaragoza
2+ week, 5+ day ago (255+ words) The identification of the arcade as part of a bridge with possible aqueduct function is supported by its morphology and orientation, which points toward the Huerva River channel, indicating the transport of water from the river into the consolidated urban…...